President's health issue 'a ploy' by enemies<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Claims that President Abdurrahman Wahid was
\nmedically unfit for office was just a political ploy by the
\nPresident's enemies, an aide said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\"The President noted that the issue of his health was always
\nbrought up to discredit him,\" presidential spokesman Adhi
\nMassardi told reporters at Merdeka Palace.<\/p>\n
\"I know the President is very fit.\"<\/p>\n
Chief of Abdurrahman's medical team, Umar Wahid, has also
\ndenied media reports suggesting the President was medically unfit
\n-- which constitutionally would allow him to face an impeachment.<\/p>\n
Umar, who is the President's younger brother, also denied
\nreports that the President's doctors had sent a letter to the
\nHouse of Representatives (DPR) suggesting that Abdurrahman, who
\nis under intense pressure to step down over his erratic
\nleadership, was not well enough to run the country.<\/p>\n
Umar also dismissed the validity of the medical reports now
\nbeing studied by some lawmakers.<\/p>\n
He said the reports had been written by doctors who had never
\nexamined the President and were based on secondhand information.<\/p>\n
Umar was referring to House Speaker Akbar Tandjung's statement
\non Thursday that the DPR would meet with a team of four doctors
\non Monday to hear their report on the President's health.<\/p>\n
The report, copies of which are being circulated at the House,
\nby the medical team suggests that from a medical perspective,
\nAbdurrahman, who has been weakened by at least two strokes and
\ndiabetes, and is clinically blind, is no longer fit to carry out
\nhis presidential duties. (byg)<\/p>",
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